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Reflexions Upon Ridicule Volume 1; Or, What It Is That Makes a Man Ridiculous, and the Means to Avoid It. Wherein Are Represented the Different Manners and Characters of Persons of the Present Age. in Two Volumes

Reflexions Upon Ridicule Volume 1; Or, What It Is That Makes a Man Ridiculous, and the Means to Avoid It. Wherein Are Represented the Different Manners and Characters of Persons of the Present Age. in Two Volumes


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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1739 Excerpt: ... Jnve&ives againft fill the pretty Women: They feek for Confolations, to fupport them in their new Way of Life, which they are foxc'd politickly to efpoufe, but which they never dreamt on, whilft they had the Crowd about them, and all the Beaus at their Feet: But now, that the Fire of their Eyes is extinguifh'd, and their Glafs tells them it's Time to think of a Retreat; to compenfate for the Lofs of prohibited Pleafures, they fall foul upon thofe who continue in the Scenes, and begin to a-St the Part they themfelves play'd before thefe their Succeffors drove them off the Stage. Moft of the Actions we commend are rather the Efiec-ls of Humour and Conftitution, than true Virtue; for which Reafon Men aci other-wife in publick than when they have no Witnefles. Virtue, when 'eis not ambiguous, is always confiftent with itfelf; the Pleafure of doing well is the virtuous Man's Reward, whether he be approv'd or cenfur'd, he ftill goes on. in the fame Track. I would fain find the Man, who is the fame, and acts by the fame Principles when alone and unobferv'd, as when he is expos"d to the Sight of the Publick; but moft People are virtuous no farther than they are fearful of Difgrace. Fear is their only Fetter, which they eafily fhake off when they find Oppoctunity to fatisfy themfelves by wounding nothing but their Confcience. The Life of certain Men is a kind of Monfler or Chimera, being a motley mixture of oppofite Qualities; their Exterior denoting Mo Modefty, Sobriety, and Ways different from the Convention of the World, but their Morals are little fuited to Appearances. Thefe very Men, who by their Chara&er and Condition are feparate from the World, are more worldly than others, more vain and beauifh, more curious of every Thing that can give them any Attr...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781151034656
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 76
  • Spine Width: 4 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1151034657
  • Publisher Date: 12 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 154 gr


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